Garment.



.DENNIS C. DSHEA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINQIS.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented heb. 5, ffd.

.application filed May 29, 1917?.` Serial No. 17l59.

VTo all whom it may concern: Y

-Be it known that I, DENNIS C. OSHEA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in garments and is fully described and explained in the specification and shown in the accompanying` drawings, in whicl Figure l is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of my improved garment as the same is designed to be used.

Referring to the drawings, 3 is the body of the garment, which is knitted as is common in sweater manufacture, with the rib bing running vertically and the direction of greatest elasticity, therefore, horizontal. 2 is the neck, which is made with what is termed in the trade a rack-stitch, about equally elastic in both directions and which, therefore, affords a snug lit around the neck. Attached to the upper end of the neck is a hood. In this hood there is a central band 4 made with a rack-stitch, this band running from a point centrally located at the rear to the center of the forward upper edge of the hood. The sides of the hood are made of two sections 5 and 6, in the position shown and with the ribbing running in the directions indicated. In both these the lines of greatest tension are naturally along the line of the ribs. As a result, therefore, the ten- @oplea ot' this patent may be obtained :for five cents l sion in the part 5 tends to draw the center of the hood down snugly on the top of the head and the tension on the part 6 lits the hood snugly to the back of the head. lrIhere is thus secured not only an excellent fitting garment but one having the extreme flexibility desirable in a garment intended .for active outdoor pursuits.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of the construction herein shown, and I do not intend to limit myself thereto,eXcept as pointed out in the following claim, in which it is my intention to claim all the novelty inherent in the device as broadly as is permitted by the state of the art.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A sweater having in combination a knitted body portion, a neck portion knitted with a rack-stitch to resist stretching in both directions, and a. knitted hood having a central band running from the upper edge of the rear of the neck forward to the front upper edge of the hood and having its two sides formed of sections ribbed in diagonally opposite directions from a central line, the ribbing in the rear portion of each side being substantially horizontal and the ribbing in the forward upper portion. of each side being substantially vertical, for the purpose set forth.

v,In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 'this 5th day of May, 1917.

DENNIS C. OSIIEA.

each. by eudressing;` the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C, 

